The London Original Print Fair 2014
Fascinating
selling fair at the Royal Academy focusing on prints with stalls from a
wonderful assortment of galleries.
I was interested to see prints which I have seen in recent exhibitions and realise that by buying prints (if you can afford them) you can own exhibition quality material.
The prints ranged
from fairly early ones such as some lovely Durer’s to contemporary work. As
usual my favourites were from the early 20th century and in particularly there
were some lovely ones by Nevinson, Nash and Duncan Grant. Of course there were
a lot of World War I prints. I would love a piece of World War I art however
the prices were telling me that I may need to wait until well after the
anniversary!
I was fascinated
by the fact that in some cases prints by an artist were actually more expensive
than drawings by them. I suppose because they are finished art works whereas
drawings are often a work in progress but I would have expected a work directly
by the hand of an artist would be dearer.
I was interested to see prints which I have seen in recent exhibitions and realise that by buying prints (if you can afford them) you can own exhibition quality material.
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